Friday, April 22, 2016

So they sue the 7-11?-----Lawyer, family: 7-Eleven, bystanders failed assault victim before he died

Lawyer, family: 7-Eleven, bystanders failed assault victim before he died - Chicago Tribune:
On Feb. 7, 2016, Marques Gaines was punched and knocked unconscious into a crosswalk outside a 7-Eleven on the Near North Side, where he lay before a taxi ran over him.
Surveillance video released Wednesday captures the last moments of a popular hotel cocktail server who was punched and knocked unconscious, landing in a Near North crosswalk.
The footage also shows more than a dozen bystanders failing to come to his aid in the nearly two minutes before a cab accidentally drives over him.
...Attorney Chris Hurley said the 7-Eleven's operator knew the area surrounding the store suffered from high street crime and should have had well-trained security that could have prevented the actions that led to Gaines' death.
"The simple reason we're here is that a corporation that keeps its stores open 24 hours a day and invites the public in … that knows that it's targeted by criminals needs to provide decent, competent, basic security, and that wasn't done here," he said.
"There's a clear photograph of the aggressor and a clear video of him attacking Marques Gaines.
He hasn't been arrested, and we don't know why," Hurley added..."

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